Dear No Helmet Guy,

It appears you don’t care about your head. You have no qualms about riding around in spandex, fretting about the exact quantity of fat and protein and caloric content of your meals or that you weigh less than your girlfriend. Yet, still you care not about your head.

Please, enlighten me, No Helmet Guy, why you choose to ride sans brain bucket? I see you, riding on your fancy BMC bike up to Alpine Dam, helmet attached to your handlebars. Are you protecting something on your bike with the helmet? What about your head? Perhaps I am naive and don’t understand the ways of not wearing a helmet and that those tiny little nylon caps provide more than just warmth.

Despite my naivete and lack of knowledge on this topic, I never see women riding without a helmet. Tourists on bikes don’t count. Only dudes take on this habit of riding. And I’ve seen plenty of you actually out on a serious ride for physical fitness, not just for tooling around with your pals. Female riders are always with helmet. Do I need to go much further into this?

Dear No Helmet Guy, you are not making a very good case for your kind. Women are smarter.